Cover or tilt for road transport vehicles



May 7, 1929- '.J. H. sPARsHA'rT 1,712,363

COVER OR TILT FOR ROAD TRANSPORT VEHICLES Filed Feb. 2, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet l l Mw K W2 J. H. SPARSHATT Vz COVER OR TILT FOR ROAD TRANSPORT VEHICLES Filed Feb. 2, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 /NI/ENTOR:

rented May 7, leze.

JOHN`HERBERT SPARSHATLYOF PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND.

COVER OR TILT FOR ROAD TRNSOBT VEHICLES.

Application filed Febrixary 2,

'lhe invention relates to road vehicles, and consists of improvements in or modifications of the subject of my previous application Serial No. 50,672 filed August 17th, 1925 for covers or tilts for road transport vehicles.

According to one part of the present invention the drivers seat-box or cab and a fixed forward part of the hood, or a fixed forward part of the hood only, or forward supports not beiner a drivers cab or seabbox, serve to carry lie hood during and after the displacement.

According invention a self-jointing to prevent rain, dust, etc., th vehicle through a gap tive moving parts.

The present invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a side view of a horse drawn vehicle Without a drivers seat-box.

Fig. 2 is a side view of a vehicle having a part fixed and part displaceable hood.

Fig. 3 isa side View of a so-called dock trolley.

Fig'. 4 is a side view of a vehicle having a part fixed and part displaceable hood with jointing provision to seal gaps, Figs. 5 and f5 being detail views thereof.

Fig. 7 is a side view and Fig. 8 an end view of an arrangement for locking the tilt in its normal position. Fig; locking arrangement hereinafter referred to.

In Fig. 1 a is a hood of a horse vehicle displaceable over the drivers seat by being slidingly mounted on supports (sides c) upstanding from the vehicle floor, and forward supports 7c seat. d and c are rollers and g are tracks one on cach side of the tilt. g is a screw-nutted hook and bolt fastening for securing the hood in the closed position. Slide guides Z, Z hold the hood from displacement sidewise as well as vertically.

Fig. 2 shows how the hood may comprise a forward fixed part c, and a rear displaceable part a and the latter carried by the forward fixed part during and after the displacement.

system is provided from driving into between the relato another part of the present 9 is a detail view of a.

arranged on each side of the drivers v 1927, Serial No. 165,402, and in Great Britain April 1, 1926.

` Fig. 3 shows a hood applied to a dockl trolley or the like. f

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show by way of example a form of jointing system with the object of excluding rain, dust, etc., from entering into the vehicle. The opening at the to between the front of the sliding tilt an the fixed forward support may be effectively closed by a headboard 1 across the front open end of the tilt contacting with a rib or like 2 arranged on the-rear end of the fixed forward support. A strip 4 of rubber or similar yielding material may be secured to the contatng face of the headboard 1 and/or the r1 The clearance at the sides between the fixed and moving parts may be closed by flaps 5 hinged to the front edges of the sides of the tilt and provided with rubber or like strips 6 on their free edges which make contact when the fiaps are closed with the sides of the fixed forward support.

The lever nuts 7 which lock 'the tilt in normal position also serve to ive the necessary contacting pressure to the aps, and upon unscrewing the nuts 7 the sides of the tilt tend to spread slightly thus freeing the fiaps for easy opening. i

Fig. 4 shows a the forward support for the sliding portion 9 of the tilt in which case the jointing is fa cilitated, as a relatively narrow headboard is sufficient to bridge the gap between the fixed and moving parts. This portion 8 may have an extended runway 3.

The sides of thevehicle instead of being drop sides may be removable sides.

In Figs. 7 and 8 there is shown a modified device for locking the tilt in its closed position. A plate or bar 10 bolted to the side of the tilt is slotted at 11 to engage a screw bolt 12 on the side of the vehicle, a fly or lever nut 13 working on the bolt serving to retain` the tilt in position. This arrangement has the advantage of being Within comfortable reach of the operator, which is not always the case where the locking bolt is on the tilt itself.

In Fig. 9, the locking nut 13 is provided fixed port-ion 8 of the tilt asi i with an upstanding boss 14 fitting into zi recess 15 in the bar or plate l0, so as to increase the surface grip, so that the risk of uccidental or unauthorized unlocking 1s 1111111- 5 mized.

What I claim is l. In combination,

a load platform, a platform, a run-Wa 10 form, said 'cover sli i a Vehicle body having sliding cover for said forward of said plaitng bodily into su pport JOHN HERBERT SPARSHATT. 

